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Spring 2024 - General Discussion

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    Day 243 of autumn 🫠



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭OldRio


    I took (dragged) the dogs out this morning at 7 am in the rain. Still raining now.

    I'm at least 6 weeks behind in my gardening. No spuds in yet. No onions. No weeding. The ground is far to wet and cold. The commercial growers and us as consumers, shall be in serious problems if this weather doesn't relent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Well, there's nothing more horrible than a typical Irish summer imo, I hate it. But if you have any suggestions on how to dress in (female) professional attire for indoor work in a formal office-type environment, but also frequent outdoor work that might require wet gear, while also spending a lot of time commuting by bus between locations, then I'm all ears. I'm obviously no rocket scientist, but a solution to avoid becoming either soaked in rain or soaked in sweat still eludes me.

    Anyway, it has been a much better day today in West Dublin/North Kildare. Dry, breezy, overcast. I really hope this nice spell materialises next week!

    Interesting to see the frost stat from your location @Supercell. I've already seen a lot of mosquitoes gathering around in certain spots. If this trend of mild winters continues we may be in trouble in a few years, in terms of there being a large enough surviving population to become a disease reservoir.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,823 ✭✭✭yagan


    Dank

    Cork Harbour.

    The grey is starting to get to me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,512 ✭✭✭✭Supercell


    Thankfully we seem to be mostly free of them here being so close to the coast, though as you say if warming and wetter is the way of the future thats going to change.

    Very muggy here now with intermittent hazy sun and 19.8C, Wicklow mountains have punched a leeward hole in the clouds like they often do here.

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,961 ✭✭✭✭tom1ie




  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Warm, sticky rain here earlier this morning. I suppose if I look at with a glass half full perspective I’ll take the warm rain over cold rain .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    Grass is growing like mad



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,822 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    In Austria last weekend they recorded the earliest ever 'heat day' (temp over 30°) since measurement history started



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    A band of very heavy showers passing over here in Castlebar. Place soaked again. Blustery also.Looks drier and brighter for the afternoon.…



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,823 ✭✭✭yagan


    The oppressive grey of the last week is being pierced by blasts of sunshine, moods lifting.

    Cork harbour.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭OldRio




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Mother of all downpours in the last 5 minutes. Plan on planting spuds after lunch ...wish me luck 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,679 ✭✭✭✭sryanbruen


    Already reached the entire spring average rainfall here now (Dublin Airport) and it's not even halfway through.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Drizzle turned to rain and now the wind is getting strong.

    Leitrim.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,346 ✭✭✭highdef




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭KanyeSouthEast


    was in northern France yesterday just for a couple of days around Calais. Again an area not noted for particularly great weather but low and behind low 20s and lovely and sunny yesterday and Wednesday. Thursday was overcast and cloudy. But the light and warmth yesterday in particular was great. Flew into Dublin last night grey low cloud. Raining now.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,694 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    Bit of blue sky and sun in west cork after a foggy and wet evening yesterday. Was able to finally get out for a walk. Windy, but not cold at last.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭mcburns07


    Yep much more like spring in East Cork today, lovely.



  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,283 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Missed the showers in Greystones. Two days in a row with no rain! 14.9c atm. Sunny and breezy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,932 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Lovely day in Galway. Some serious growth happening now. You can feel everything about to take off. Great to see the leaves coming back on the trees.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Lovely day, if a bit breezy. The 12C is suiting me just fine; any warmer and I'll be sweating. 😅🤗



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,932 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    Still bright at 9pm. Not bad at all.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 12,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    Quite breezy to windy here in Kerry today giving an added wind chill but great sunshine all day and dry apart from some overnight and early morning showers. Very noticeable how good the drying was today, the ground was dry enough to walk over, another couple of days and will be out working on it again. Hopefully not too much rain tomorrow.

    Got up to 12.5C

    8.2c atm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭kingshankly




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    that’s been a windy week since last Saturday it’s been windy every day will we ever get a nice calm dry sunny day ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Finally .... some hope



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Its going to get quite windy tonight with some very heavy,possibly thundery showers. You can see them out to the west below



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭gym_imposter


    Sneaky fourteen hour dry period here in East Galway, lashing rain again now



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭McGrath5


    Back from a few days in Valencia, blue skies the whole time and stayed around 25C. It was amazing and strange to experience continued warm weather with people sitting out eating and drinking, it was all so lovely.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭KanyeSouthEast


    it’s bloody cold today.

    But when I see that people are happy with 12 degrees it really shows that we all have weird and wonderful views on the weather.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,951 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Heavy rain pelting Galway in strong cold southwesterly. It is mid-April, right?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭compsys


    It feels cold today alright in the wind.

    But the average max temperature in Ireland for April is only around 11º or 12º. The May max is only around 15º.

    The past few days have been around 15º/16º in the East at least. So temps more akin to May in fact.

    April has been OK temp wise. Maybe that's why some people are happy? The rain is another thing of course…

    But I'm always amazed how every single year Irish people seem to expect mad warm temperatures this early in the year. Do people not realise how cool our climate is, even in the midst of global warming?

    It rarely gets warm in April unless we have a mad heatwave - and even then the East usually remains cool.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Kutebride


    Escaping the rain so far Meath......any moment now no doubt.

    Windy :(

    12⁰ Meath



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭kingshankly


    cold and lashing rain in the north east

    Seems to be the norm now

    Meanwhile France and Spain in the high 20s



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭KanyeSouthEast


    accept all of that but I was simply saying some people are sweating over 12 degrees shows me that there are a lot of people with a different take on the weather that’s all. Having lived in Ireland for over 50 years I’m well accustomed to April weather here.



  • Registered Users Posts: 42 goingmadted


    Can we just rename the months from Oct - Apr, Aut/Winter.

    Spring can be May. The rest Summer.

    8 degrees reading in the Van the last 2 days. Wind and lashing rain today.

    The few veg plants i planted are looking pathetic. Sick to death of this shyte now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭compsys


    Fair enough.

    Anyway, fingers crossed, next weekend is looking better.

    We've had a period of fairly mild but quite unsettled weather going on weeks, if not months.

    We could get locked into a period of quite settled weather just as we head into late spring. These things tend to balance out in the longer run.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,932 ✭✭✭Cluedo Monopoly


    They key is making hay during the good weather. We have so much technology now that tells you what the weather will be like almost to the hour. It's important to maximise the plentiful dry windows. Temperature doesn't bother me too much as long as it's dry. In fact I get very lethargic in any temp above 21C.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?



  • Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭The HorsesMouth


    Agree with this. 17-20c and sunny is the absolute perfect conditions for me when you're going about your normal working day in this country. Obviously on holidays when you're in the pool and out sunbathing then 25-29c is ideal.

    We can hope and dream for anything in between...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,823 ✭✭✭yagan


    I find there's a huge difference between 9° and sunny and 9° wet.

    One can be pleasant, the latter intolerable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,243 ✭✭✭✭Oscar Bravo


    Some heavy showers pushing in from the west now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Christ it's windy tonight and windier tomorrow. Yellow wind warning likely for the North and West. Torrential rain in parts of the North currently. Sligo missing the worst of rain so far just 1.3mm so far here but not the wind.



  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭Mapaputsi


    Oranmore Galway getting absolutely hammered by wind and rain tonight. Feels like stronger gusts than the last couple of orange warnings for sure (our house faces the sea). Has woken the house now. Always seems to happen here on bin night too, can hear bins and cans rattling around the road outside



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭Dazler97


    We just had 2 minutes of the heaviest rain in carrick on shannon I've seen in a while, very blustery outside as well ,I thought there would have been thunder too as we had hail also



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,242 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Just off Yellow now and stronger winds to come 89kph in Newport.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Woken up by the wind in Lucan just now. Rain is hammering off the windows.



  • Registered Users Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Rugbyf565


    rain and wind also hammering off my windows in south Dublin, woke up freezing cold temperatures only dropped to 4/5 degrees but my bed feels freezing. Had to throw on a hoodie, tracksuit bottoms and socks for the first time since winter 🥶



  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭OrangeBadger


    Sligo

    Absolute hammering rain and wind



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Well at least it's stopped raining. It's changed to hail. Cold and bitter wind. Dark.

    Utterly depressing.

    Leitrim



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